The Speed of Dark — Kelli Jae Baeli

Kidnapping an amusing goth girl, frustrated musicians in a rehearsal space, defiant nuns in a convent, fantasy fulfillment with academic colleagues, mistaken identities and clever manipulations, a repressed literature professor in a firestorm of exploration and desire, toolbelts and breakup sex, trapped in the rubble and the desperate darkness, escape from a failed relationship, and a reunion of separated soulmates.

The Speed of Dark is daring er*tica, populated by characters suited just as well for full-length novels. Baeli explores boundaries, asks tantalizing questions about love and desire, and defies the conventions of passion between women.